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From:   Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 May 2023 09:01:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: make config X86_FEATURE_NAMES visible with EXPERT
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, x86@kernel.org,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 9:03=E2=80=AFPM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote=
:
>
> On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 11:43:12AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Like remove the option entirely?  Or just remove the prompt so folks
> > have to hack the .config for it?
>
> I wanna do entirely as we have waaay too many config options but we
> probably could start with removing the prompt only and see who
> complains...
>

Dave, Boris, thanks for your review and feedback. I have now sent you
a new patch series to remove it from the prompt and remove it entirely
as two patches, so you can choose which option to take now. In the
end, all of this serves my overall goal of reducing the number of
configs and removing CONFIG_EMBEDDED very well.

Lukas